Europe is considered to be the capital, and at that time period, their power came from the churches because a lot of people in Europe were Christian and believed everything the churches told.
When they figured the world was actually Heliocentric and not Geocentric, they didn't have any restrain against knowledge anymore. They've proven that the Bible was wrong in saying the world was Geocentric.
This also leads them to thinking that if this piece of information was wrong, and it came from the Bible, the one they trust, then sooner or later they will start to find other incorrect information and it started to change things.
Europe is considered to be the capital, and at that time period, their power came from the churches because a lot of people in Europe were Christian and believed everything the churches told.
When they figured the world was actually Heliocentric and not Geocentric, they didn't have any restrain against knowledge anymore. They've proven that the Bible was wrong in saying the world was Geocentric.
This also leads them to thinking that if this piece of information was wrong, and it came from the Bible, the one they trust, then sooner or later they will start to find other incorrect information and it started to change things.